1014 - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1400 - Richard II dies, most likely from starvation in Pontifract Castle, on orders from Henry Bolingbroke
1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1779 - James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1835 - The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd US state.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1919 - The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1929 - St Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1943 - World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1956 - The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1981 - Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
2005 - Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2011 - As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
Famous Birthdays
1545 - Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara
1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, writer
1847 - Queen Maria Pia of Savoy of Portugal
1931 - Brian Kelly, actor
1945 - HSH Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1953 - Odds Bodkin, author
1962 - Michael Higgs, actor
1967 - Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1970 - Simon Pegg, comedian and actor
1976 - Erica Leerhsen, actress
1986 - Oliver Lee, actor
1991 - Chris Rowney, footballer
1994 - Paul Butcher, Jr., actor
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